Joe Wright Quotes
I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
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I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.
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Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it.
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I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
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A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
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'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
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Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.
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I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.
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I won coach of the year at the ESPYs, but I didn't go to ESPYs. That's not me. I don't want the attention.
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I don't need to Google myself.
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I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.
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Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own.
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I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.
